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Day Five: Too much information â On the art of reading and not reading
Was man glaubte, als das Internet und damit der information overload aufkam: âThe real trouble, according to the prominent techno-optimist Clay Shirky, wasnât information overload but âfilter failureâ. All we really needed â and would presumably imminently get â were more sophisticated ways to filter the digital what from the chaff.â (S. 27)
Was stattdessen eingetreten ist: âThe challenge isnât to locate a few needles of relevance in a haystack of dross. The challenge, in the words of the technology critic Nicholas Carr, is figuring out how to deal, day in day out, with âhaystack-sized piles of needlesâ.â (S. 28)
Zwei Tipps von Oliver Burkeman âfor navigating a world of infinite informationâ:
(1) Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
- âThat is to say: think of your backlog not as a container that gradually fills up, and that is your job to empty, but as a stream that flows past you, from which you get to pick a few choice items, here and there, without feeling guilty for letting all the others float by.â (S. 29)
- âClearly, the mere existence of something readable creates no obligation to read it […].â (S. 29)
(2) Resist the urge to stockpile knowledge
- âAt least where non-fiction sources are concerned, itâs easy to fall into the assumption that the point of reading or listening to things is to add to your storehouse of knowledge and insights, like a squirrel hoarding nuts, in preparation for a future when youâll finally get to take advantage of it all.â (S. 29f)
- âThis attitude prompts some people to develop complicated systems for taking notes on everything they read, which turns reading into a chore, which then perversely leads to their not reading books theyâd otherwise enjoy or benefit from, because they canât face taking the notes.â (S. 30)
- Erwischt! đ
âSpending half an hour reading something interesting, moving, awe-inspiring ore merely amusing might be worth doing, not jus to improve who you become in the future â though it might do that too â but for the sake of that very half hour of being alive.â (S. 30)
Day Nine: Finishing things â On the magic of completion
â[Steve Chandler] suggests spending one day robotically completing as much unfinished business as you can: âNotice at the end of that day how much energy youâve got. Youâll be amazed.â â. (S. 53)
- vgl. meine Idee des âHygiene-Tagesâ aus 2013/14: An diesem Tag wird alles lĂ€ngst ĂŒberfĂ€llige erledigt. Alle Leichen werden aus dem Keller entfernt.
- Erledigen, so gut wie notwendig // delegieren // löschen
Day Ten: Look for the life task â On what really matters
Oliver Burkeman schreibt ĂŒber das Konzept der Lebensaufgabe von C. G. Jung: Was will das Leben von mir?
âThe question can be a startlingly powerful one, particularly when you find yourself torn between options, or between external pressures and your own ambitions, or unable, for any other reason, to figure out what to do next: Whatâs the life task here? Never mind what you want. What does life want?â (S. 56)
âBy definition, a life task is something your life is asking from you; so while it might coincide with your parentsâ expectations, or your societyâs ideals, ist also very easily might not.â (S. 57)
Wie findet man seine Lebensaufgabe? â âThat must always be a matter of intuition.â (S. 57)
Oliver Burkeman gibt aber âtwo signpostsâ, um seine Lebensaufgabe zu finden:
(1) â[…] a life task will be something you can do âonly by effort and with difficultyâ, as Jung puts it â and specifically with that feeling of âgood difficultyâ that comes from pushing back against your long-established preference for comfort and security.â (S. 57)
- Das wĂŒrde darauf hinweisen, dass meine Lebensaufgabe aktuell das âUnternehmer seinâ ist: NĂŒtzlich sein, darĂŒber erzĂ€hlen, fĂŒr Umsatz sorgen etc.
(2) âThe second signpost is that a true life task, though it might be difficult, will be something you can do.â (S. 58)
âThis helps distinguish the idea of a life task from certain popular notions of âdestinyâ or âcallingâ, which can leave people feeling as though thereâs something theyâre meant to be doing with their lives, but that their life circumstances make it impossible. That canât be the case with a life task, which emerges, by definition, from whatever your life circumstances are. Itâs whatâs being asked of you, with your particular skills, resources and personality traits, in the place where you actually find yourself.â (S. 58)
Ich glaube, die Lebensaufgabe hat einiges gemein mit der Idee des âGuten Grundâ.
Day Twenty-One: Whatâs an interruption, anyway? â On the importance of staying distractible
âAnd yet, objectively, all thatâs occurring in the world is that certain things happen, then other things happen, then still more things happen. When we define some of these things as interruptions of, or distractions from, other ones, weâre adding a mental overlay to the situation […].â (S. 115)
- Vgl. Bruce Springsteen in Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen: Renegades â Born In The USA, wenn sein Sohn in sein Arbeitszimmer kam und ihn âstörteâ.
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